The Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman gave fans some very good news back in July 2019 when he announced that the show would be revving up for two more years.
But it was hardly a surprise given those leaked Amazon Prime documents, which revealed that the show had encouraged more people to sign up to the streaming service than any other Amazon series.
So, what can we expect from the next instalment? Here's everything you need to know.
The Grand Tour season 5 episodes: How many will there be?
Seasons one to three have had 13, 11 and 14 episodes respectively, while season four has so far only aired one – a special, titled The Grand Tour presents… Seamen, in which the hosts swapped cars for boats – which means there's a lot more to come.
As for five, we don't yet know what we'll be getting, but our money's on at least ten episodes.
The Grand Tour season 5 release date: When will it be released?
There isn't currently a premiere date on the table for season five, but as soon as we know it we'll stick it right here so you don't miss a moment.
But first up, we need the rest of season four, which only kicked off on December 13, 2019.
"Just to let you know. Yes, another special is coming. We've finished filming in Madagascar. No, we don't know when it's coming out yet. Yes, Season 4 is made up of epic specials. No, they're not released weekly. Yes, we'll have more info in due course," The Grand Tour account tweeted.
So there you have it.
Nothing to report at the moment, but we'll keep our eyes and ears peeled.
It probably also hasn't helped that Richard Hammond contracted a bacterial skin infection during filming of the new series.
"It bloody hurts," he told BANG Showbiz. "It's one of those on the list of crap conditions I've had. I got it from climbing into the water and then I realised my legs were hurting. My feet were very red and it went through my legs.
"You could literally see it tracking up my leg. I'm at a disadvantage because it's a much shorter journey to my vital organs. That would have been a really crappy way to go."
Of course, The Grand Tour’s production is entirely dependent on the gang’s ability to travel (the clue’s in the title of the show) and with coronavirus severely hampering (well, completely stopping) international travel, season five is going to be negatively impacted.
Clarkson said as much on Twitter in early March: "We have one pretty much ready to go and when this virus business is settled, we will head off to do two more."
And, just in case you think that Clarkson might go renegade, and break the ‘stay at home, save lives’ directive, think again.
The combative presenter announced on Instagram: "Normally when I’m told to do something I react by doing the exact opposite, I’ve done that all of my life, but on this occasion, no."
"I have been asked to stay at home and even though this is my home and it’s got holes in it and it’s very cold at night and there’s only one chair, I am doing what Mr. Johnson has asked me to do."
"And do you want to have James May’s death on your conscience? No you don’t."
"So come on, please, everyone, let’s just sit it out. It could be worse, you could be me."
Bizarrely, Clarkson has a unique insight into what started the virus - he’s eaten a bat.
"Over the years, I’ve eaten and drunk all sorts of things you won’t find on the menu in McDonald’s. The worst thing I ever ate, however, was a bat," he said (via The Express).
"They’d put it in quite a good curry, so the taste wasn’t so bad, but the bones? [it was like] eating a cemetery."
The presenter ‘reassured’ fans that another COVID-19 style situation probably won’t happen. "Because if the coronavirus really was caused by someone eating a bat, we can be pretty damn sure that he won’t ever be eating another."
Well, that's comforting.
The Grand Tour season 5 locations: Where will they travel?
Andy Wilman recently shared a photo of a map on Instagram without a caption, but what does it mean?
Is he referring to season four, season five or just planning his summer holiday?
There's no news yet about where season five will take us, but we look forward to finding out.
The Grand Tour season 5 on Amazon Prime: Will it stay put?
Jeremy Clarkson and the lads may have jumped ship from the BBC to Amazon Prime, shifting from Top Gear to The Grand Tour, but another move isn't on the cards just yet, with Amazon Prime staying as the show's home for now.
"We were signed up by Amazon to do three seasons and everyone was like, 'They're going to do four', but we were only asked to do three," Clarkson said (via Metro). "We're delighted to say Amazon have asked us to do more.
"Whenever anyone would say, 'Oh, you're not telling us because it's not happening'. No, we can't tell you because we hadn't gotten round to doing three. When we finished three we talked to Amazon and they said, 'Oh no we'd be delighted', and they seemed to love us so consequently you've got us for a few more years yet."
Here's the (typically dry) announcement:
The Grand Tour season 5 presenters: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May?
Yeah, they'll all be back – the show wouldn't be the same without them, as has been proven by Top Gear's shifting fortunes.
But some fans might have been slightly concerned recently when May told The Sun that his involvement might be coming to an end.
"How do I feel about ageing? Bad," he said. "I'm in the second half of my fifties now and in all honesty, I'm slightly falling apart.
"I'm developing nervous disorders and aches and I don't think I'll do this much longer because I don't want to fall apart in public.
"It would just be a bit undignified and I don't think people want to see it. There's almost certainly more of it behind us than in front of us. How long do you want to see old blokes?"
He added: "Jeremy's possibly even more decrepit than me. When it takes us 15 minutes to get out of a Ferrari, do you really want to see that? It's sad. You're supposed to leave the audience wanting more.
"We never thought we'd be doing it this long — and we never really thought about how it would end."
Maybe that's why he tuned in to watch a younger crowd on the BBC...
"I've been watching it quite regularly since we stopped," James May told Digital Spy. "It's quite nice to watch Top Gear when you're not on it, which I haven't been able to [watch it] for, you know, 13 years or whatever."
"And I think, well, it was a bit of a shaky start, if we're honest. It took them a while to work out how to do it. But I think they're doing a fairly good job now. It's almost as good as ours."
But despite the jibes, the people involved in the making of the shows are in contact with one another.
Top Gear executive producer Alex Renton told Deadline that the teams "talk informally" to avoid any awkward clashes in terms of locations and challenges.
Exec producer Clare Pizey added: "If we know in advance they are going somewhere, we would avoid it because it's not what viewers want."
But that doesn't mean Wilman and Clarkson have tuned in to watch Top Gear since leaving.
"I think we did the best one, so I'm happy with that," Wilman told Deadline. "And I've got loads of mates who work on it. I wish them well, but I don't have any need to watch it."
May thinks the current Top Gear line-up works "quite well", but he added: "Occasionally, it feels a bit forced.
"I'm quite good mates with Chris Harris, anyway. I've known him for a long time, so I quite often send him little snide messages.
"They've got the potential chemistry right. The thing that everybody forgets is, with our chemistry, it took us at least seven years, I think, for it to develop to the point where everyone was familiar with it and knew how we worked. It's a long process. You can't really manufacture it.
"If you've got the ingredients right, it will work. But you have to let it develop. And the process of watching it develop is part of the experience of the viewers. They did that with us. They watched some slightly awkward blokes on the telly, and probably thought, 'Ho ho, this is a bit awkward' – and then enjoyed watching it mature and flourish and settle down, and all those sort of little in-jokes developed."
We can't imagine Amazon would want to risk starting from scratch by changing The Grand Tour's line-up. The trio are the show – so expect your favourite three to return after having truck-loads of cash dumped on their respective lawns.
The Grand Tour season 5 controversy: What now?
It seems wherever Clarkson, May and Hammond go, controversy follows, and The Grand Tour has had its fair share of criticism.
Hammond responded to the allegations that the show is homophobic, telling Digital Spy: "It's bloody annoying, because we are not remotely homophobic as a show. If anybody takes something as homophobic, then yeah, I think we should remove it, because I don't want to cause offence.
"But no, we don't sit down and… Because to say, 'We're going to be really careful not [to] be homophobic in this series' would be to say: 'Well, you must be, then, because you're having to try not to be.'
"So I just don't think – no, we don't set out to try and adjust that kind of thing, because we're not. And never have been.
"But then, to be honest, people are always looking for it. The favourite one we used to get was about sexism. People were always saying, 'Well, we know what you lot are like about women and cars'."
"What! We've never said anything. Apart from that I've got [a] wife and two daughters who could beat the shit out of me.
"But we've never, ever said any of those things, but people used to level the accusation at us, on the assumption that we were – probably because we're middle-aged, probably quite middle-class blokes. So the assumption is, that's what we would be, and do. But we're not."
Well there was the racism, Richard.
Let's hope the boys manage to get through the next series without upsetting anyone.
The Grand Tour season 5 trailer: When can I watch it?
It's currently a waiting game, but as soon as the official trailer drops we'll pop it right here for your viewing pleasure.
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